"My dear boy, please don't put a label on me --
don't make a category before you get to know me!"
-- John Irving, In One Person
Cardboard bin of pumpkins 10-14-14 |
"What others call you, you become.
It's a terrible magic that everyone can do -- so do it.
Call yourself what you wish to become."
-- Catherynne M. Valente,
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland
and Cut the Moon in Two
and Cut the Moon in Two
"It ain't what they call you,
it's what you answer to."
-- W.C. Fields